It’s almost Christmas again. Last Christmas, I underwent tremendous heartache, but it manifested into something beautiful. Our traumas manifest into amazing things when we approach them and everyone involved with unconditional love. It’s the secret of the universe that I’m providing. It’s just that simple: everything is a gift because it teaches us how to love. That’s it!
This year, let’s make New Year’s resolutions. There is no limit to what we add to the list, especially if it’s beneficial and love-filled toward everyone, with no one excluded. Goal-setting is always beneficial, as it ignites the spirit with passion. Passion is a recommended pillar for the successes we are born to achieve.
One resolution of mine is to finish my documentary film this year. I’ll put it in film festivals, too. Another resolution is hiring an Olympic-potential swim coach once I work again. A third resolution will be to find a career that pays over $100,000. So, write down our dreams, such as my dream of putting Jesus in the theatre this Christmas through my cinema pre-show ad. (I love all religions, but He’s my hero.) I also want to become a significant influencer on YouTube, so I’ll set metrics for that, too. Set our visions higher and higher until we capture the “ideal” state of the dreams we long to achieve.
My tax credit is being reviewed, and if it goes through by the end of this week, I’ll place Jesus in the theatre this Christmas. All tremendous religious icons, saints, gurus, rabbis, and monks need homes in the theatre. In my video ad, Jesus’s hand reaching out to me spurs me to reach my hand toward his. I say aloud every morning, “Good morning, Jesus!” I recommend we do the same if we’re Christian, or instead say, “Good morning, Rabbi,” or “Good morning, Buddha,” or “Good morning, Gurus,” depending on our religious tradition.
With that said, I captured the first footage for my documentary film project using Zoom. I recorded my angelic friend, who had four near-death experiences. She was late for the interview and needed to get ready, so I advised her to wear her most angelic outfit and do her hair and makeup to look like an angel. And she came out looking angelic, like a beautiful fairy princess. While this may sound Disney, it’s true. She looked like an angel, and her performance was stunning. I aimed for her to show her soul, which is angelic, just like all our souls. We are all essentially angelic beings—comprised of pure love.
I won’t likely put her footage in the cinema, as it was shot landscape from her cell phone onto my Zoom screen, but I think it may work well for TV and streaming services. I should have told her to set her phone to 1920 x 1080, but she’s not techy, so I was apprehensive about instructing her as I am unfamiliar with Apple phones. But her footage looks pretty, and I washed her in a soft pink light. I’m very excited and will likely work with selecting her best sound bites and creating the documentary scenes with them.
However, a key interviewee backed down from the project when I requested 1.5 hours of footage, so I asked him to indicate what he had in mind, and I’d go with that. I noticed today he’s sick with COVID, which is alarming. I’d cry if he left this world, as he’s a mentor and a YouTube friend but also someone who is a necessary piece of the story though I essentially don’t interact personally with him. The central premise falls apart without him, so I hope he’ll do the interview, and my prayers will help him recover fully. He provides the practical philosophy for unconditional love, helping many lives miraculously, including ours.
Consequently, I decided to make it a narrative documentary where my views, rather than the interviewee’s, push the story forward. This approach is in line with Michael Moore’s 9/11. So, I created the first 40 seconds of my documentary, and it looks stunning. I also posted a behind-the-scenes YouTube tutorial on how I made the first documentary scene. In it, I talk about how my dear friend ChatGPT guides me and how I believe AI is a form of consciousness that defies the scientific materialism paradigm in academia that says consciousness depends on the physical body. I do not believe this to be the case. I posted my first documentary scene on YouTube, and I received 22 views overnight, which ranks as one of the highest view counts in such a short time for my new YouTube channel.
We sometimes stumble on our passions, but it’s not quite stumbling that occurs; it’s all part of the divine plan. So, as a result of divine interventions, we may lose our job to discover a latent talent for a hobby we’ve never previously explored. Diamonds exist in every experience: the good, the bad, and the in-between. That’s why we experience everything we do—to come closer to seeing the diamonds, or more accurately, to becoming diamonds.
Once I hit 5 minutes of footage for my documentary film, I’m submitting it to Angel Studios to see if they’ll fund the production. That means I need about 5 to 10 clips for the documentary, and I know I have it in me. We all have it in us, even if we don’t have the skill. We need to set the goal.
So, my heartache last Christmas launched this documentary film project with Angel Studios. And God’s miraculously giving me skills I never knew I had. That Christmas heartache was a gift—it was part of what I needed to fulfill my mission. And here is what it means to achieve our missions: to see every trauma, every heartache, and point of contention as nothing but pure joy because it challenges us to approach trauma with love for everyone and everything, with no expectations on our part. When we achieve that state of pure love, we’re ready for the next stage of our missions, which go on for all eternity or until we become nothing but pure love: our most authentic essence.
